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CULTURE

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CULTURE
Interviewing Jyoti Patel, author of ‘The Things That We Lost’
This moving coming-of-age story explores what it means to be a person of colour in Britain today, discussing themes of identity and…
AISHWARYA VISWAMITRA
CULTURE
Status Symbols in India and their Colonial Roots – Part I: Colorism
Featured Illustration: Uday Deb The roots of colonialism in India have been firmly in place since 1858, when the British Raj came…
ARIANA BHARGAVA
CULTURE, POLITICS
Carving Out Indigenous History
The Story Behind the Black Hills   The Heart of Everything That Is is what the Black Hills have been known as…
ARIANA BHARGAVA
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
The Partition
The Partition is known to be the world’s largest mass migration, displacing 14 million people and killing another million. Following the British…
MALIYA
POETRY & PROSE, THE ARTS
Grief in August
And so I write to my Rabb this time… Whenever August rolls around I become numb.  From the Partition to Article 370,…
MALIYA
CULTURE, EMPOWERMENT
Michelle Tea On Knocking Herself Up And The Fertility Industrial Complex
Initiating with the radical transparency that she will thus continue, it is 2011 when Tea’s reproductive odyssey commences. A former sex worker,…
MAEDBH PIERCE
CULTURE, EMPOWERMENT
“A Poem to Latin America…”: An Interview with Fashion Designer Hyla Golden Del Castillo
Featured Image: Justynn Roque and Alec Boyle Five years ago, a determined young woman from Colombia moved to Canada with large aspirations…
SWETHA SUTHARSAN
CULTURE, THE ARTS
The Power of a Single Bead: Fashion Designer Aarabhi Sivaraman’s Take on Ethical Fashion
Featured Image: Aarabhi London As I look down on the row of colourful, translucent microbeads laying gently alongside one another, selectively chosen…
SWETHA SUTHARSAN
CULTURE, EMPOWERMENT
Creating Our Own Subculture Through Storytelling: In Conversation with Writer Nadya Agrawal
Featured Image: Kajal Magazine From traditional folktales to iconic fables, storytelling has been a powerful tool that has played a fundamental role…
SWETHA SUTHARSAN
CULTURE, POLITICS
King Crimson and the 21st Century Schizoid Man
King Crimson is an English progressive rock band formed in 1968, renown for its experimental style and approaches to music. It is…
KEITH SUARES
CULTURE, EMPOWERMENT
Nike Basketball | The Window
How do you pick yourself back up after what feels like a devastating loss, miss-step, or mistake made due to a lack…
AHMAD GHANIM
CULTURE, LIFE
How Chicken Tikka Masala Became the Paradigm for Cultural Diversity
Featured Illustration: Julia Wytrazek As soon as you step foot into an Indian restaurant, your nose will be hit with the scent…
SWETHA SUTHARSAN

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